when chronic stress becomes burnout
While burnout can be an intensely isolating experience, the feeling of being burnt out at work is about more than an individual issue. Burnout doesn’t just describe an individual condition, it describes a relationship that is in trouble.
3 Somatic Strategies for Emotional Overwhelm
If you are feeling emotionally overwhelmed, here are 3 simple strategies you can try in the moment. These actions help bring us out of states of physiological and emotional overwhelm.
the arguments for keeping artificial intelligence out of therapy
One of my biggest concern about letting robots write our notes is the impact on our clinical thinking.
Grief Dreams
Given that searching and yearning for our loved one is a core experience of bereavement, it makes sense that these dreams can be world-shaking moments of contact.
Nancy McWilliams against the “industrialization” of mental health care
When change seems impossible—sometimes this is because we’re not asking questions about structure and framing, not because we’re asking for too much.
How long does therapy take?
Short bouts of therapy can be helpful, even an app can make a big difference in a pinch. And at the same time, if you want to engage in a process that significantly changes your life—that allows you to travel to new places, to express and understand yourself and other people in new ways—just like the slow process of learning a new language, it will take some time.